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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Lady Barker's Letters from New Zealand ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Lady BarkerLetters from New ZealandPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 14 October 1800: 'Wm. lay down after dinner -- I read Southey's Spain.'Dorothy Wordsworth Robert SoutheyLetters from SpainPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph Blanco WhiteLetters from SpainPrint: Book
1800-1849G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 November 1847: 'I received yesterday the volume on "Swiss Politics" which you were so good as to send me. I have since read it with gr...G. C. Lewis George GroteLetters from SwitzerlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...] 		Mary S. Stansfield Freya StarkLetters from SyriaPrint: Book
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842: 'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with it; very clever writer; critique in Despatch harsh...George Borrow Miss RigbyLetters from the BalticPrint: Book
1800-1849'27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s "letters from the East", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with his accounts of the Holy Land, I could scarcely quit ...Amelia Opie John CarneLetters from the EastPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters from the Levant] ... I wish you had given us more ......George Gordon, Lord Byron John GaltLetters from the LevantPrint: Book
1800-1849'I feel, dear [-], gratified by the partiality which you express for my writings. You would, more than many others, be much influenced by the subject so often alluded to,...Charlotte Bury Anne GrantLetters from the MountainsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Joanna Baillie, 24 October 1844: 'I have been reading "Mrs. Grant's Letters" with considerable amusement. She often writes very well, and [italics]thinks[e...Mary Berry Anne GrantLetters from the Mountains; being the real corresp...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points for the reader (Magdalene Erskine). Vol. 2 has a n...Magdalene Erskine Anne GrantLetters from the Mountains; being the real corresp...Print: Book
1700-1799'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "The Modern Philosophers", notwithstanding the objecti...Mrs G- Elizabeth HamiltonLetters of a Hindoo RajahManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" (1799), a collection...Mary Shelley Charlotte SmithLetters of a Solitary WandererPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening walk out - read the Solitary wanderer'Mary Godwin Charlotte SmithLetters of a Solitary WandererPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 January 1838: 'In my childish days & for some days afterwards I have read & re-read Miss Seward's Letters. They had a cha...Elizabeth Barrett Anna SewardLetters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Anna SewardLetters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years ...Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her former teacher, Margaret Wooler, 28 August 1848:

'Do you remember once speaking with approbation of a book called "Mrs Leicester's Sc...		Charlotte Brontë Charles LambLetters of Charles LambPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'Has your Ladyship seen Lamb's letters, in Mr Talfourd's edition? I quite [italics]sighed[end italics] wh...Elizabeth Barrett Charles LambLetters of Charles Lamb, With a Sketch of His LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters with the utmost delight; & not the less so for seeing s...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles LambLetters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreeably disappointed: but now my pain and disgust are gr...Harriet Martineau Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley)Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to ...Print: Book


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